To be sick of the food Gestapo on here?

[MaddyHatter]

Honestly, the amount of declarations about what is healthy and unhealthy.. its ridiculous.

if you listened to everyone on here we'd all have to be vegans and living off sucking water through a celery stick.

Just shut up. If you honestly think food like Sausages, Mashed Potato, Tomato Soup, bread, cheese, milk and most fruit are unhealthy, the you're teaching your kids into eating disorders.

[SnugglySnerd]

Yes people on here are a bit fanatical about "healthy" eating especially never letting a single grain of sugar pass their child's lips, even in the form of fruit.
The exceptions seem to be wine, gin and Nutella. I have never seen anyone criticised on mn for eating Nutella, normally everyone joins in saying they eat it straight from the jar!

[SerendipitousFoxley]

Or my personal favourite "this is why we have an obesity crisis." Usually followed by "Most people I know would be completely stuffed after two roast potatoes and half a chicken breast." Or "my six year old has never seen a chicken nugget, they wouldn't know what it was, and would probably cry for mung beans like they're used to."

[DerekSprechenZeDick]

The sausage thread opened my eyes to the ridiculousness that is MN.

I loved it

[specialsubject]

not the best analogy....but anyone who didn't flick their hair through school knows that no food is unhealthy. Disordered eating and an unbalanced diet is unhealthy.

if it is unhealthy, it isn't food.

[YelloDraw]

Or "my six year old has never seen a chicken nugget, they wouldn't know what it was, and would probably cry for mung beans like they're used to."

LOL!

[StillStayingClassySanDiego]

Is it a lack of knowledge about the differences between refined white sugar and those of natural sugars found in fruits?, because otherwise why people think fruit is unhealthy is mind boggling?

[Bearfrills]

On MN could you say that for lunch your DC had a ham sandwich on wholemeal bread, some cheese cubes and some grapes and you'd almost always get someone comment "I'd leave out the grapes, they're far too sugary..."

Or that it doesn't matter that school lunches consist of sausage, mash, chips, pizza and a cake and custard dessert every single day because the portions are apparently tiny yet if someone posted that this is what they were making for their DC for dinner every evening they'd be criticised for making unhealthy food.

It's ridiculous.

[Farmmummy]

Shock horror not sausages!

[DownWithThisSortaThing]

Yeah, cheese is too fatty for a lunchbox apparently. Carrot sticks are more than enough to sate the hunger of a growing child apparently hmm

But kids are supposed to have fatty foods like cheese aren't they?! They're growing? HV have told me to give DS full fat everything. or am I doing it wrong?!

[TiggyD]

Are you intolerant to the food Gestapo or is it an allergy?

[StillStayingClassySanDiego]

I'm a reception TA, I've still not got my head round the fact that the free milk is semi- skimmed, it should be whole milk.

[RichardBucket]

Carrot sticks are more than enough to sate the hunger of a growing child apparently

Carrot sticks? Might as well give them lumps of sugar in their lunch box. Why not raw kale, or do you want your kids to be obese?

[DownWithThisSortaThing]

I have seen the 'fruit is too sugary' bollocks on MN before. I eyerolled at that and carried on feeding DS a diet of pretty much only fruit because that's all he would eat for a couple of months when he was very poorly. Call social services! (Or log it with 101)

[WhooooAmI24601]

My Mum spent my whole childhood on a diet, slapping crisps out of my hands and screeching "ooh Terry I can't manage another roastie" so's everyone would commend her for being thin and splendid. She's batshit and perpetually hungry.

I've taught the DC's that it's not about good vs bad foods, but balance, and we eat a balanced diet to model that to them. All you can do is hope for the best.

This "mine have never been to McDonalds" competitive eating is insane. So what? Are you better parents for it? Mine ate three McDonalds in one weekend a few weeks ago when they went away with MIL. Nobody died from it. We just force-fed them fruit and veg and quinoa on their return to upset them.

[Soubriquet]

I actually saw someone ask when it was deemed OK to give her children tea and coffee. They had never had it before so therefore didn't ask for it.

Her children were 18 and 20

[StillStayingClassySanDiego]

Somebody start a thread about fruit, I want to see the fruit loons come out .

[MadHattersWineParty]

exactly.

I don't even have any kids but when I do I'm sure as shit not going to withhold the joy of cheese from them

Course fats are good! They need the calcium too.

[scaryteacher]

WhooooAmI24601 I'd be upset if someone tried to feed me quinoa, by force or otherwise!

[SilverBat]

Of course YABU
However YABU to believe what they purport to feed!
Same as real life, people say things that they deem PC

[SilverBat]

Meant to say of course YANBU!

[MissHooliesCardigan]

I've always said that Mumsnet completely departs company from reality when it comes to food. In the real world, kids' packed lunches consist of a ham sandwich on white bread, a yoghurt and a kitcat. On Mumsnet, the average packed lunch is line caught salmon from the local loch sandwich on home made spelt bread, carrot sticks with home made hummus, cherry tomatoes from the allotment and gluten and sugar free home made date and carob loaf.

[TaraCarter]

Quinoa is good, cooked with Oxo cubes. I recommend boiling it with potato chunks.

If you have any leftovers, put them in a sandwich with lashings of margarine. No, I don't give a fuck about LCHF diets!

[HumphreyCobblers]

I read the cheese thread, weren't people mostly saying it WAS a healthy snack? I would rather give cheese than fruit because it will keep them going for longer, not because fruit is unhealthy

[LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett]

While 'that's pure sugar' isn't quite a MN line, we'll always have 'cereal? That's just shit in a box.' In fact, I'm going to start using when I need to prove my credentials "long-term poster, naice ham, Pom bears, cereal shit in a box..."